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B2017.021.1
58. Woman curing salmon (smoking pipe) / Eskimo cleaning fish. Property of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Chicago Transparency Co. [Alaska Native woman sitting next to drying racks, dog at right. Tinted. Double caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.10
Pacific Stereopticon Co. [two miners thawing ground. Image cropped with loss of original caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.11
Sitka, int. of Greek church. Pacific Stereopticon Co. [interior of St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral. Tinted]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.12
Yukon, B.C., Eskimos with reindeer / Reindeer & sled. Pacific Stereopticon Co. [Inuit man and woman with possibly white man and woman, both couples leading reindeer pulling sleds, log buildings in background. Double caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.13
Scotty Allan’s team of dogs / Dog team. Maude & Bartoo [two dog teams on ice, passengers in basket of sled in foreground. Tinted. Double caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.14
Pioneer Home buildings, Sitka, Alaska, 7/4/24. [bird’s eye view of Sitka, with tents and boats in foreground, large group of people on green in front of buildings, flagpole at left, St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral in background. Prior to 1949. Tinted. Image cropped with partial loss of original caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.15
Perry Island, Bogosloff Group, rose in Bering Sea, spring 1906. 5718, F.H. Nowell by permission of Dr. Ebert U.S.S. Perry [five men in uniform standing on beach, two holding rifles, steaming volcanic rock across water in background, Bogoslof Group. Tinted]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.17
Winter dumps on Little Creek, Nome, Alaska, Apr. 22nd, 1906. 4722, copyright by Nowell, 1906 [distant view of mining operations]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.18
48. Klondyke & White Pass [miners working at placer mining operation]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.19
[hydraulic mining operation. Glass cracked, backing glass missing]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.2
14. Taku Glacier [two people in small boat at base of glacier terminus. Tinted. Glass cracked]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.3
13. Juneau from deck of steamer. Property of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Chicago Transparency Co. [bird’s eye view of town. Tinted]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.4
16. Skaguay. Property of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Chicago Transparency Co. [bird’s eye view of Skagway. Tinted. Glass cracked]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.5
59. Eskimo woman with papoose / Eskimo family. Property of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Chicago Transparency Co. [Alaska Native man and woman, woman carrying baby. Tinted. Double caption]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.6
7. Wrangell. Property of the White Pass & Yukon Route. Chicago Transparency Co. [bird’s eye view of town. Tinted]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.7
Pacific Stereopticon Co. [miner on riverbank, holding pan with gold. Image cropped from original in printed publication. Tinted. Glass cracked]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.8
The Alaska College, Fairbanks. Pacific Stereopticon Co. [exterior of Main Building. Tinted. Glass cracked]
Collection: B2017.021
B2017.021.9
Pacific Stereopticon Co. [Alaska Native men dancing and drumming, with large group of spectators, in front of building. Tinted. Tint flaking]
Collection: B2017.021